Wednesday, March 31, 2010
polymath
-յան
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Structure, Agency and the Internal Conversation
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Մարտ
Friday, March 26, 2010
The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genuis
After all they (the British ruling class) belonged to a class with a certain tradition, they had been to public schools where the duty of dying for your country, if necessary, is laid down as the first and greatest of the Commandments. They had to feel themselves true patriots, even while they plundered their countrymen. Clearly there was only one escape for them - into stupidity. They could keep society in its existing shape only by being unable to grasp that any improvement was possible. Difficult though this was, they achieved it, largely by fixing their eyes on the past and refusing to notice the changes that were going on round them.
An empire with a Victorian past could have afforded a lapse into stupidity, but can we???
One thing that has always shown that the English ruling class are morally fairly sound, is that in time of war they are ready enough to get themselves killed. Several dukes, earls and what nots were killed in the recent campaign in Flanders. (p. 60)
Do we need another war to pronounce our elite morally bankrupt? Are we not in war enough right now? Warring with oneself is a deadlier war, isn't it? Orwell calls England a 'family with the wrong members in control'. Still a family... We seem to have had the wrong members (perhaps even the right ones) get astray far too away to remember what a family is and how it feels...
Friday, March 19, 2010
The fragility of goodness: luck and ethics in Greek tragedy and philosophy
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Մեր մոռացված նախնիների ստվերները
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective
Friday, March 12, 2010
«Որ ի՞նչ անի»
- Պապիտն ո՞ւր ա:
- Գյուղում:
- Ի՞տ ա անում:
- Ո՞ր իտ անի:
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Կարդում եմ «Ինքնագրի» երկու հաղթող պատմվածքները: Ծանր զգացողություն ունեմ, բայց «ինչո՞ւ» հարցին լավ պատասխան չունեմ: Միգուցե Վիգոտսկին մի քիչ լուսավորի՞. "Прямая линия — это и есть действительность, заключенная в этом рассказе, а та сложная кривая построения этой действительности, которой мы обозначили композицию новеллы, есть его легкое дыхание." (Психология искусства)